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1. #MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI DRIVER#
2. #MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI PRO#
3. #MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI SOFTWARE#

The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,'' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long.'' And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem - solve it.'' I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. Q: How did you come to compose "The Microsoft Sound''?Ī: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas.

Eno describes the process in a 1996 San Francisco Chronicle interview: This will restore your defaults.Did you know that the Windows 95 startup sound was composed by avant-garde electronic musician Brian Eno? I had no idea until I saw it referenced on music thing. Try making up many different MIDI configuration schemes to your preferred sounds, and remember, if you mess it up, you can still select DEFAULT as a MIDI scheme.

Remember, this information is useful for those of you with both internal sound cards and external keyboard-synths and/or modules. Success! As I mute each track separately, (Double-clicking on the "P" beside the track name will change it to an "m" for Mute) I can hear distinctively the differences between my newly mapped devices. Notice in the circled area below that PowerTracks tells you what channel you're currently using for that track.

I'll choose I_q, because it has a few instruments on different channels. I will open one of the demo *.seq songs included with PowerTracks. After you select the OK button, PowerTracks will be configured to use the MIDI Mapper.

#MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI PRO#

This ensures that PowerTracks Pro Audio will use my new MIDI mapper scheme. I deselect any current Output Drivers, and select only the MIDI mapper.

#MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI DRIVER#

Pull up the MIDI Driver Setup dialog from Options | MIDI Devices. However, we want to use our new custom scheme. PowerTracks is a very clever program itself, and like the MIDI mapper, can access your hardware directly. It is also good to know that you can save multiple schemes in this way, assigning different channels to different MIDI instruments as the need arises, and retrieving these setups quickly.

#MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 STARTUP SOUND MIDI SOFTWARE#

This scheme will affect ALL MIDI data from every software program, including Band-in-a-Box ®, PowerTracks, the Media Player and so on. button at the top of the MIDI Configuration window, we're all set to use our software. *Note this was for this demonstration only, due to latency, assigning any software synthesizer in combination with hardware synthesizers can result in strange and out-of-time sounds!Īfter saving my scheme using the Save As. If you had a dedicated drum machine, you could assign it channel 10 instead. I later set my channel 10 (Drums)to the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas-55*. We can continue in this fashion assigning each of the 16 channels to different instruments. After I select OK, the MIDI configuration screen displays the changes I have made. This is the name that Microsoft gave my Roland SCC1 driver. If we highlight a channel (I've highlighted channel 3) and hit the change button, the following dialog appears:įrom this dialog, I choose MIDI for MPU-401 Compatible. You may have another device, like a keyboard or drum machine, but the process is identical. However, I do have a Roland SCCI card installed in this machine. These indicate where the output of each of these MIDI channels is currently set, in this case they are all set to Internal OPL2/OP元 FM Synthesis, another name for the MIDI sounds on the installed SoundBlaster 16 card. Notice the channel numbers along the left hand side.

Continuing with our process, we will select the Configure button. This indicates that we are choosing our own output devices. You will notice that the Single Instrument dialog box becomes faded. You may or may not have the devices available that you see here. If you access Control Panel | Multimedia icon, and then choose the MIDI tab, you will see something like the following. Note: If you do not have more than one installed MIDI device, the following information is good reference, but you should continue to use the default settings that Windows 95 assigns you. It has been scaled down a bit from Windows 3.1, but it is still a handy tool. The MIDI mapper is included with Windows 95. We'll be using PowerTracks Pro Audio for this tutorial, to illustrate the effective use of the MIDI mapper.